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2019 Joan Burge Innovation Award for Assistants

Office Dynamics

I know assistants are always coming up with great ideas, creating new systems or templates, or taking the lead. As trailblazers in the administrative training industry, Office Dynamics wanted to celebrate outstanding ideas birthed by administrative and executive assistants. Creation of an assistant outlook account.

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Set Stretch Goals

Office Dynamics

From Joan Burge’s new book, Joan’s Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed (2018). THE BROCHURE PROMOTING AN administrative training pro­gram said, We will never make you do anything you don’t want to do. As scared or nervous as they were, they stepped up to the plate and they were proud of themselves afterward.

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The Vanishing Executive Assistant? My Response

Eat Your Career

The article makes a number of claims regarding the EA profession, most of which can be summed up in the article’s subhead: The erosion of jobs that gave women without college degrees a career path happened in dribs and drabs but is as dramatic as the manufacturing decline Rachel Feintzeig. I, for one, am up for the challenge.

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